VIEW: Require gun background checks

10:22 PM,
Feb. 15, 2013

Written by

The Herald-Times, Bloomington

Calls for tightening gun laws aren't loud in Indiana, and even if they were, they wouldn't get far. Hoosiers believe strongly in the Second Amendment and interpret it to believe the government should keep its hands off an individual's right to firearms.

As such, Indiana has few gun laws. A colorful chart accompanying a Time magazine special report shows Indiana has one of eight state gun regulations that can be found in the United States: requiring dealers to be licensed. According to Time, 14 states have one fewer gun law than that.